What in the hell

Quinn Yeargain@yeargain.bsky.social · 2d ago

my god, it looks like the person in Arkansas who administered the bar exam took bribes in exchange for altering scores from fails to passes (and there appears to be one example of an alteration in the opposite direction). details are thin, but she's been indicted: arcourts.gov/sites/defaul...

Vance: "AES is a socialist Islamist who will kill us all." AES: "Buckeyes? More like Suckeyes."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

El-Sayed: "I just pointed out the fact that constitutionally he's obligated to swear me in. And he did go to Ohio State University, which of course is a lesser university than the University of Michigan."

I audibly laughed 😂

Montgomery County Texas Dems with some advice for @TheDemocrats: -Hire @AbdulElSayed’s comms team -Ask @ZohranKMamdani for advice -Axe @SenSchumer & @RepJeffries -Get new more exciting leadership -Consult with @SenSanders www.facebook.com/share/p/1Khd...

I like how this meme manages to acknowledge both without turning it into infighting, instead calls for people to all focus on continuing the fight for a better world.

Asher HELLbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 2d ago

One or two people I know IRL have been publicly poo-pooing midterm enthusiasm on the terms that "liberals are just going to return to brunch," and I think it crystalized something for me, which is that there is a tendency within some of our movements to be deeply, venomously suspicious of joy

search and AI *could* be dis-deeply-integrated.

Natasha Singer@natashanyt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Breaking: Parents in North Carolina sue Google over A.I. Safety risks on school Chromebooks www.nytimes.com/2026/11/05/t...

Just remember October is ADHD awareness month.

Why would you need body cameras in prison

House Judiciary Dems@democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 2d ago

It’s time for ICE to take the masks off, turn the body cameras on, and start answering to the American people who pay for their bloated budget.

How do you pronounce jaguar? I say something like "jag-wire" but my husband says it more like "jag-you-are", and my toddler is confused 🙊 (this skeet brought to you by the Wild Kratts book on canids) (I know jaguars aren't canids!! but the rare South American bush dogs they compete with are!)

Some Dems did run anti-trans campaigns, and the results show that NONE OF THEM HAD TO. So one of my takeaways is that if you are Dem and still running on bigotry, it's not because you are being "pragamatic" it's because you are being a bigot. And you don't have a pollster to cover your ass anymore.

Exciting California news for fans of organized labor and big tech losing www.kqed.org/news/1210789...

Jackie Elward Declares Victory in North Bay Assembly Race Targeted by Silicon Valley | KQED

Tech-funded super PACs spent millions in the race for Assembly District 12, but analysts say the deluge of outside spending backfired.

kqed.org

My baby has started making this exact face at me 🥹

Hey, you. Yes you. Have you been screaming happily in bars? If so, and you get sick, it could be COVID. No big deal, you’ve been vaccinated, etc. BUT. Long COVID effing sucks, and multiple studies suggest taking a course of Metformin PRONTO can help. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Metformin at the Time of COVID‐19 Infection and Risk of Long COVID: A Target Trial Emulation Study

Our objective was to evaluate metformin prescribed at the time of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the risk of developing Long COVID (LC) in electronic health record data. We conducted a new user analysis of ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

And for God’s sake: follow Mamdani’s lead and have someone with charisma who seems normal (Ossoff? AOC?) go on Instagram and TikTok and explain how every passed policy will improve people’s lives. Passing good legislation isn’t enough. You have to EXPLAIN VERY CLEARLY WHAT IT DOES

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d ago

1. nuke the electoral college so every American’s vote counts equally 2. Ban Congress people, White House admin from trading stocks 3. Non-partisan redistricting. End all gerrymandering 5. Automatic voter registration for all U.S. citizens, who will then be sent mail ballots.

man, the funniest thing about "now is not the time for revenge" is that revenge is probably the lowest common denominator in the big tent. like it'll be real work to get the libs and socialists to agree on affordability policies. everyone's cool with revenge, though

Given that my students' minds are data centers, I'd like to see some billions of investment in THAT.

Everytime I hear “no political retribution” I think of our country blowing up fishing vessels in the Caribbean and then going back to kill the survivors. Until now, the republicans have owned that unspeakably evil behavior. If the democrats do nothing about it, they are collaborators.

"Most people I see driving these vehicles show few signs of using them to haul bags of Quikrete or move a buddy’s couch... if you don’t use your truck for something akin to this at least three times a year, you should be forcibly downgraded to a Toyota Yaris."

Transit Talk: Your massive truck is deadly, and I’m judging you

Transit Talk is not impressed with your BIG TRUCK and, in fact, believes it's dangerous, economically infeasible, and impractical, especially on the narrow streets of Pittsburgh.

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I'd love to see all the carve-outs and loopholes via "light truck" designation eliminated. All consumer private vehicles have to follow the same regulations on emissions, front end crash safety and so on. And then have vehicle axle weight taxes.

If it sounds like I'm stuck on Mississippi in particular, it's because pre-civil rights Mississippi is maybe the closest any modern American state got to being a full-blown totalitarian terror regime. And now the party of multiracial liberal democracy can now credibly compete there statewide.

everyone jokes about libbing out, but let me say: you can hold a radical politic and still celebrate when positive change happens. tuesday was like rescuing a drowning person. we can be happy they didn’t die. joy is fuel that keeps us going, don’t deny yourself of it because you think it’s cringe.

Massie burning it all down on his way out the door has TREMENDOUS potential to be both significant and hilarious

AZ Intel@azintel.bsky.social · 3d ago

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) says he plans to introduce a motion to impeach Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth when Congress returns next week, claiming that multiple GOP sources said they expect it to pass. - CNN

A joke this good deserves alt text:

The South Will Rise Again (bewildered, laudatory)

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3d ago

Scott Colom flipped OLE MISS? The school that hated Black people so much that JFK had to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to send in the actual U.S. Army to help a single Black student register his classes on the first day of school voted for the Black man????

1/ Dear dozens of new economic populist members of Congress, You’ll face fast pressure to deliver economic results. How to do it? Subpoena CEOs. A shocking amount of time, they'll change what they are doing long before you pass a bill or actually cut off their federal funding. So:

The fact that so many seats in states people didn't even realize were in play and that others are so close (Mississippi!!) speaks to how people in places a lot of y'all wrote off were quietly putting in a metric fuck-ton of work, while meanwhile "safe" WA and CO couldn't kill anti-trans measures? 👀

still trying to fully grasp the amount of good that can be done now very quickly we will fix public school funding we will expand Medicare we can repeal the abortion ban we can ungerrymander the state we can make voting easier and enfranchise felons weed will be legalized we can unfuck UT & A&M

da da™️ drew@adrew.dadguy.pro · 3d ago

don't quit fighting for your home - a democrat from texas

FROM SCOTT COLOM If you voted by affidavit in Mississippi because you didn’t have voter ID, you have until Tuesday, November 10 to cure your ballots Call 888-300-4350 for help

Scott Colom@scolom.bsky.social · 3d ago

MISSISSIPPI! Our race is too close to call. We are going to make sure every single vote has been counted, and I am confident we will ultimately flip this seat.

This is too hopeful for bluesky, but I really wonder if there's now hope for something like a return to normalcy, by which I simply mean that my top level political concerns are policies and politicians, not the machinery of the republic.